There are loose analogies to Yarvin, where Bill Ayers had a similar relationship to Obama, Aleksander Dugin's relationship to Putin, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's influence on the Blair and Clinton cabinets, Ayn Rand's influence on the Reagan cabinet, Karl Popper/George Soros' influence on the Biden org. Klaus Schwab even became a kind of Rasputin cult figure to the CANZUK countries over the last decade.<p>Yarvin's ideas aren't really that interesting owing to once being described as doing for words what bitcoin did for electricity. My read was they are reaction to history downstream of Marx, which was itself an anti-clerical reaction, and this "reaction to a reaction," is a hollow simulacrum that takes in productive minds. Where Yarvin fails is that his atheism is a constraint that means he has to sound everything out from scratch again. Whenever I read his stuff all I see is a philosophical game of "God is lava."<p>If there is any predictive power about this admin from Yarvin's ideas, I'd look for precedents in what the WEF network did with the EU/CANZUK in the background after co-opting Karl Roves "actors of history" mentality in the last decade. Change you can't see until after, ratcheting effects, exercising hard power, etc. not anti-democractic, but post-democratic, where america is healing from decades of capture and democratic failure.<p>I don't think, other than maybe the sentiment of restoring the legitimacy of america's elite, that Yarvin's ideas influence anyone that much. They absolutely emboldened people to question the progressive narrative machine by showing how alternatives were rich and historically deep, but the moldbug show itself is limited. Insights into Vance and this admin will come more from thinkers with popular traction like Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Sowell, and the stories of American heroes that are examples of the essential American character, and not anti-heroic critics like Yarvin.